7 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN \\ hich people shake or glide-no,v you see theIn, novv ) ou don't. The discaire switches from hot to cool without warning. \Vear sensible shoes. Activity until three-thirty ev- ery night DIRECTOIRE, [60 E. 48th St. (758-9570)-The fascination \\ ith France continues, the set- ting being from that period when nothing- except maybe the furniture-<:;eemed to go right Pin-striped elegance, adequate dancing (from ten to three or four), and a v.ell- developed cuisine. Closed Sundays. L ETOILE, I E. 59th St. (751-7025 )-An in- telligently run restaurant that opens one of its gl ttery, soft-carpeted rooms to dancing two nIghts a ",eek. The recorded music con- tinues from eleven until three on Fridays and Saturdays. Dinner and supper. HIPPOPOTAMUS, [54 E. 54th St. (486-1566)- Animal heads on the walls, and Anglo-Indian nlenlentos all over the place. The real mood is oh-hoVv-chic, and since chic is a social vari- able, the point remains moot. Dancing to 45S fronl nine-thirty until four. Reservations re- quired for dining. No food Sunddys. L'INTERDIT, in the Gotham Hotel, 2 \i\ 55th St. (CI 7-2200)-The doyenne of Ne\:\" York discothèques, having been around practically as long as rock itself. The restrained recorded music-more \Varwick than Joplin-runs frolll nine to three or four. On weekends reservations are recommended. Closed Sun days and Mondays. LATER AT ACT I, I Times Square. (695-1880)- Frolll the fifteenth floor of the Allied Chemi- cal Tower, patrons look out on Midto\\,n glitter-dancing, as it were, in a neon iono- sphere. Live groups alternate with records Supper. Closed Saturdays and Sundays SALVATION Too. 30 Central Park S (752- 4365 )-Again the heights, this time with a fine vie\ of the Park, and with an interior graced with colored lights and wicker ani- nlals. Many well-chosen recordings. Danc- ing from ten every night. Dinner until eleven. Reservations are recommended SHEPHEARD'S. in the Drake Hotel, Park Ave at 56th St. (HA 1-0900 )-Carnarvon and Carter would have gasped, had they stumbled upon the pseudo-Egyptian luxuriousness of this restaurant. But this is 1970, and fev. gasps are heard-nlaybe partly because of the loudness of the records which three times a night are interrupted by some rather slick entertainers: Through Saturday. Sept 26, Dickie Roc and the Miami Showband; he- ginning Monda:y, Sept. 28, the Zaras. Dining. Closed Sundays WEDNESDAY'S. 210 E. 86th St. (535-8500)-In the heart of Y orkville, a basement has been turned into a facsitnile of a street, with real shops, sonle bars, sonle café tables, and pave- ment on which people are encouraged to dance to 45s-which they do from six until three Sunday through Friday and from eight until three on Saturday. WHEelS, 159 I Second Ave., at 82nd St. (879- 3777 )-Basic rock, in a shiny room where nobody cares what you wear or how you move, the whole scene heing a groovily ap- pointed dancing-and-listening arena The 45 r.p.m.s alternate with the jazz-rock sound of the Dave I ittle trio Closed Sundays. YELLOWFINGER'S. 200 E. 60th St. (752-0980)- Descend a flight and find a spot where every touch contribute to the coolness of the whole Good sound, good dancing to persistently swinging records, large drinks. and a knowf- edgeable crowd. Reservations-for what they're \\orth-are suggested on weekends BIG DEALS (Dinner and supper, music, and all that.) ALPINE CELLAR, in the Hotel McAlpin, Broad- way at 34th St. (PE 6-5700)-One big happ) family, and even slaphappy whenever the schuhplatter dancers strike out; that is, Bavaria in an outgoing, singing, beer-drink- ing. operetta state of hody and nlind.... f1J Sundays and Monda) s though, the scene is not Bavarian but Bernludidn, for then the Talbot Brothers, who have been crooning their sweet nothings for generations in their native (well, practically naïve) habitat, come north for reprise . Six to ten Sundays, seven to eleven Mondays AMERICANA. Seventh Ave. at 52nd St (581- 1000 )-In the Royal Box, the self-styled S.M.T 27/28129 .W.T-F.S 2.J JO 41 22 5 1 2 J b broad-beamed Totie Fields' casual but noisy broad-bealned humor is supplied in quantity during dinner and supper She finishes up on Saturday, Sept 26. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Engelbert H umperdinck, definitely the nev.- est prince of Wales, and a pretty flip one, starts humming like a top and like a very Mod \Velsh bard. The orchestra of Lee Evans, keenly devoted to the welfare of all good dance music, does the tunes here. CHÂTEAU MADRID. Lexington Ave. at 48th St. (752-8080 )-A celebrated Freedom Rider (she has her native Cuba on her mind) is Olga Guillot, whose arias are equally pa - sionate, equally overwhelming, equally full- bodied about nlore romantic topics. 1\0 silent evenings, ever, on these premises. . . . f1J In the much smaller Flamenco Room, the activity, likewise on a no-nights-off hasis, is enhanced by the guitar of Juan Jimenez and the voice of J o e Sordiall. Their lyric cvnlmentary on the tnale-vs.-female syndrome makes it ap- pear to be not at all an unnecessary evil. They COlnmence at ten, and do not stop until way past bedtinle. COPACABANA. 10 E. 60th St (758-0900)-B. J. ThOlllas, who is using his head to gather those Burt Bacharach raindrop while he may, does the singing, and does it famously well; Lonnie Shorr, a standup comedian who actually has a mind of his oVvn, does the con- versation. On Thursday, Oct. [, they give way to Joan Rivers, a truly compulsive talker as 'veIl as a housekeeper who has some dras- tic fall housecleaning in project. Twice a night for everyone, every night included. . . . ç In the ground-floor lounge, after ten, the sound effects (both human and electronic) come by direct wire fronl Las Vegas No quiet nights here, either. DOWNBEAT, Lexington Ave at 42nd St. (889- 5 100 )-Illustration, the eleven-man Canadi- an thundering r. & r squadron, gets down off its rocking horse on Thursday, Oct. I, so that Gas Mask another wrack-and-roll gang, can check in the following evening. Dancing. Closed Sundays for ear therapy. PLAZA. Fifth Ave. at 59th St. (PL 9-3000)- i\s she used to say when she was television's spokeswoman and <:;mokeswoman for Muriel cigars. why don't you come up and see Edie Adanl sometitne-Iogically. during dinner and supper in the Persian Roonl, where she is now singing and chatting. \Vith her go the dance bands of Burt Farber and Mark Monte. Opening night, which is \Vednesday, Sept. 23. Miss A appears only at ten-fifteen. Closed Sundays... . f1J In PLAZA 9- MUSIC HALL (PL 9-3933), "Danle5 at Sea," the recent Off Broad\ ay nlusical, is having its ::,econd child- hood-a childhood devoted, like its first to the childhood of the Hollywood Dick Po,;ell- Ruby Keeler musicals. Tuesdays through \ TROPICAL FI S H 1 1 É) - lEj - t. .. .... \: '. \ " _ '.:' ...... . ...... . ..... . -.. - ., : : .. .. . .... .', ...1:. .._.. ... .. ... \ 1 o Thursda) s at eight-thirty. Fridays and Saturdays at eight-thirty and eleven-thirty, Sundays at three and seven-thirtv.... f1J A bowing acquaintance, busy plucking -and bow- ing a modest fiddle. is on duty, seven to ten- thirtv every night but Sunday, in the placid but noble Edwardian Roonl. . . . f1J In the Palnl Court, from four-thirty until six-thirty every afternoon, the same sort of musicale takes place, and it is repeated, every evening but Sunday, from nine to one. From \Vednesdays through Saturdays, the nightingale is the vio- lin of Gunnar Hansen, and a better man for the Job would be hani to find. RAINBOW GRILL, 30 Rockefeller Plaza (PL 7- 8970)-Many a happy landing is nlade on thi lofty airport bv the band \\ hose leader is the cherubic Jonah Jones. The Jones boys depart on Saturday, Sept. 26, and on Monday, Sept 28 Steve De Pass, a singer from out of the 1\ew \Vest (Las Vegas, that is), move In. The enterprise is in session every night but Sunday, and dance music commences at eight. Sr. REGiS-SHERATON. Fifth A. ve at 55th St. (PL 3-4500)- This season. the Maisonette is a houseboat on it ::,erene way down the Danube to Vienna and its cuisine, but the dance music remains as An1erican (the Bob Thomas band) and as Latin (the Peppi Morreale quartet) as ever. Closed Sundays and Mondays. . . . f1J In La Boite, which i<:; designed for sedentarj diners, Rav Hartley. pride of Australian dravving-room pianists and a ranking piani t in this country. plays froin seven-thirty until one-thirty Tuesdays through Saturdays. WALDORF-AsTORIA. Park A. ve. at 49th St. (EL 5- 3000 )-Diana Ros a vivid exponent of the queen-bee, bird-of-paradise manner of sing- ing, i holding court in the EIllpire Room dur- ing dinner and supper. On Monday, Sept. 28, she will be replaced by Jose Felicia:1o. an exponent of another equally vivid, and up-to- the-minute sort of singing. Dancing. Closed Sundays. SMALL AND BOUNCY (Dining but no dancing except as indicated) CAFÉ CARLYLE, Madison Ave. at 76th St (RH 4- 1600): Those were the days, and Bobby Short, whose literate arias go back to the distant peacetime pastime world, nlakes all that happy hedonisin seem lush, lyric, and (as it truly \\ as) laughahle This great retrospec- tive is enhanced by his piano and his side- nlen, Bever!) Peer and Dick Sheridan. Closed Sundays. . . . DANGERFIELD'S. I I 18 First ....'\ve., at 6Ist St. (593-1650): A tale of h:vo ci ties (ours and Las Vegas) is narrated by Rodney Dangerfield, a spokesman who must be tnodelled on Damon Runyon and Paul Bunyan. The going can be rough, but it i<:; cer- tain to be funny Other trappings. too. but no nlattel. Nourishment dt all hours; closed Sun- days. . . . El AVRAM. 80 Grove St., at Sheridan Sq. (243-9661): Mediterranean (and subter- ranean) clearing house, predominantly Israeli because of Avram Grobard, player and joker, and song b:y Ron Eliran. Plenty of other music. and plenty of life The dining is an entente cordiale betvveen East and \i\T est. Dancing. Closed Monday through Thursday, Sept 28- Oct. I.... A QUIET LITTLE TABLE IN THE CORNER, belowdecks in the Executive Hotel. 23ï Madison Ave, at 37th St. (685-7 I 60): Often standing room only, and no standing on cereinony, in this bar-and-grill. Piano is the acconlpaniment, fr01TI cocktail time on, and the best of this sound comes from Bubber Johnson. who is in action from nine-thirt:y until three, Tuesday through Saturday each week. . CHEZ VITO. 36 E. 60th St. (PL 5- 2025): The violinists who patrol the battle- ments seenl never to be bowed down, except. of course, when Leyna Gabriele, daughter of the regiment, turns loose a foursome of chor- isters (herself included) who operate on the theory that there's no operetta like an old one. FrOlll dinner until two Clo ed Sundav . . . . DIONYSOS. 304 E. 48th St. (758-8240): -Right in the lap of the well-known and ever-popular god. lIe is celebrated not only by Obmpian libations and cuisine but by an Athenian dance quartet intent indeed upon its happy work, not to 111ention liberal helpings of song. Closed Sunda) s. . . . lA PAELLA, 3 IIamilton Pl., Broadway at I36th St (690- 1300): Per- hap the 110rthernmo::,t Spanl'3h trading post on this continent. A few Americanisl1ls are evident (s01TIe of the custonlers, say), but the